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An officer with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police Department was stabbed Wednesday while on patrol at the Jamaica Station of the Long Island Rail Road while attempting to disarm an emotionally disturbed man holding a knife.

The art installation at the Avenue U station on the <img src="/siteimages/subwaybullets/q.png" alt="Q Subway Line Symbol" border="0"> Line was named one of the best public artworks in the United States at the 2012 Americans for the Arts Convention held in June. <a href="http://flic.kr/s/aHsjAnsoTo">Click here for photos of the artwork.</a>

In the year since the program to sell E-ZPass<sup>&#174;</sup> 'On-the-Go' tags in cash lane began, nearly 65,000 tags have been sold, with most sold in just the last three months after the program was expanded to include all nine MTA crossings.

MTA New York City Transit completed another round of FASTRACK work on June 29. Hundreds of workers were busy in tunnels and stations performing a four-night blitz of inspections, repairs and maintenance jobs, as well as cleaning and painting.

The quick action and team work of two MTA Long Island Rail Road employees resulted in a customer being reunited with her two-carat, sapphire and diamond engagement ring that was lost on a morning rush hour train.

The Broadway/Seventh Avenue corridor is next up for 'FASTRACK'. For four consecutive weeknights beginning Monday, June 25th, more than 800 maintenance workers will replace, inspect, repair, paint and clean subway infrastructure on the line segment between 34th Street-Penn Station and Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center.

In a move to more effectively manage its real estate portfolio, the MTA is accepting proposals from real estate companies seeking to master lease the 13-store retail concourse at the recently renovated 59 St-Columbus Circle subway complex.

Want to know how traffic is moving at MTA crossings or how long it will take to reach a connecting highway? The information is just a tap away with Bridges and Tunnels' new MTA EZTravel app, now available for free download at the Apple store.

Minor league baseball is back as the Brooklyn Cyclones and the Staten Island Yankees are back in action. Use your MetroCard to get to the ballpark for affordable minor league baseball and some breathtaking ocean views.